St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-11
The Men Who Fatally Shot Patrick
Meagher Tell Their Story in
the Court.
How Great an Amount of Bonds Shall the
City Ask For to Improve
Its Parks.
A Days Doings in the Courts--One
Hundred snow Shoers Ban
quoted at the Ryan.
A Bridge at Summit or Marshall Ave-
nue--Many Local Happen
ings on Monday.
HOW MEAGnER WAS KILLED.
The Men who Did the Shooting at
Mendoza Make Sworn State

The Men who Did the SncOtIbs as
MENDOZA Make sworn State
ments.
The men implicated in the shooting of
young Meagher were arraigned before JUS
tice Bryant, of Mendoza, for examination
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Charles
Wagenknetch, Gustav Bartz and Herman
Unruh, the three men who adj
mitted to the justice on Saturday
that they did the shooting, and Herman
Weichert, John Wagenknetch and August
Bloseau, three more of the group who adj
mitted being present at tine tune, all made
sworn statements to the justice, and were
each held by that official in 81, 900 bonds, to
reappear before him on summons, when
the result of Meagher'S wounds
were made known. The bond was
readily furnished by the Germans, who are
wel-off farmers, one man signing the bond
for the other until all were provided for.
Constable OZier who summoned the men.
also signed one of the bonds. Fred Wag-
enknetch. the man who claims to have been
seriously injured by Meagher. sent i'll word
by his assoc. ateS that he was unable
to appear The justice already has
Fred's sworn statement, made to him
Oh Sunday, and from which the
story published in the GLOBE yesterday
was obtained. Justice Bryant also has in
his possession the caSe-knife used by
Meagher i'll his attack. the lamp bottom
with which it is claimed he struck Fred
Wagenknetch, and the clothes he Wore
when first appearing at Charles Wagon
knetch's house at o'clock Saturday morn
ing. When Meagher was brought into
Mendoza by the Germans he had OH an old
PAIR OF OVERALIS,
ragged hickory shirt and badly dllapi-
dated coat and cap, which belonged to
Chales Wagenknetch. This suspicious cir
cumstdnce was explained by Charles Wag-
enknetch, in his sworn statement before
Justice Bryant. rather aWkWardly, as fol
lows:
'Meagher came in and wanted to get warm.
He asked me if l hadn't got pair OF old
overalls to give him, and brought Elm ont a
pair. He put them on first over his pants,
and then said they were too tight. and took
his pants Off and put on the overallS alone.
He asked me then if didn't have an old coat
| could give him. / said L hadn't, and he
walked up and down the floor for while.
There was a cap hanging on the wall and he
asked if he couldn't take that. told him he
could, because L was afraid OF him. He
looked very strange. He put on the cap and
says: Now if | had a coat | would be all
right Then he said: You seem to be
very good sort of fellow, l tell You why
want to do this. Two or three years q 20 ! was
keeping company with girl who shot her.
self. Her mother has charged me with the
shooting, and l want to get away and want to
disguise myself. Haven't you got any coat?'
/ told him | had nothing but an overcoat and
couldn't spare that. We'll, he says, give that to
me and I'll be all right. | gave it to him and
he left his clothes on Il chair. Then he said:
i want to write q letter. l got MIN paper and
envelope and he wrote letter and showed il
to me. l don't remember what ii was, but as
near as can get il, 1t was in regard to q girl.
Then he left and went off. That was about
in the morning. l went back to bed. and
about O'Clock he came back on dead run,
and didn't stop, but smashed the door right in.
He said that he had
DONE UP ONE POLICEMAN
and ordered me to stand out by the stove and
put my hands down at my side. AT that time
he was armed with the knife and the
bottom of lamp. | did as he
ordered me because l was afraid of him. but
my wife ran out and called for help. She got
Herman Wechert. and he came into the
house armed with Il revolver. ! told him to
shoot and he says: 4 am so nervous from
running / can't Then says: Give NE the
revolver, aid let me. He gave it me, and
presented it before this man (Meagher) and
ordered him out OF the house. He started to
the door, and backed away, but
came back again Immediately, with
his knife in his hand, and I shot
at him, but missed. Then he ran towards the
barn and threatened TO burn the barn. l
followed him with a revolver and made him
go back, away from the barn. He had dropped
his coat somewhere, and l handed the re-
volved to Herman Weichert to watch him. l
went back to the house and got my shotgun
and Il new coat. which l carried as near as /
dared, and threw it at him. He said
he would not take the coat from
any such - - and wou.d
fbott
knetch came up covered with blood and said
that this man had stabbed him with knife,
told NE
TO SHOOT HIM.
By this time Bartz and Unruh and John
Wagenknetch andI August Blosseau had
ance and we drove him down
onto the IKE. fired with the shotgun and
bit him, and then Herman Unruh fired and
hit him in the leg and he fell Bartz fired but
did not hit him"
Charles Wagenknetch's story, as above,
was corroborated in the main points by the
others. At the examination yesterday the
curious public was excluded by Justice
Bryant. with two exceptions, and the eX-
animation carried on by the justice and con-
stable in the presence of these two. The
Justice says he has twice telegraphed the
county attorney of Dakota county at Hast
ingS regarding the affair, once on Saturday
and Yesterday, but received no word, and
consequently was obliged to handle the
whole thing himself.
Justice Bryant was found with a crowd
of villagers in Egan'S saloon last night not
in very amiable frame of mind. He at
first refused to give any account of the eX-
animation or what his official action would
be when officially notified of the death of
Meagher. 1t was the first intimation of
the fatal result of Meagher's wounds re-
ceived at the village, and the eager and
curious populace received it with various
expressions of surprise. In little knots they
stood about in the open places and eXcitedly
discussed the affair. the general opinion eX-
pressed being that it was brutal murder
and that the offenders should be
brought immediately to justice. After
sending for the constable and
consulting for some time, Justice Bryant
finally concluded that it would be best to
give up what he knew, and proceeded to do
so. He announced in tones OF awful
solemnity, that if Meagher was really
dead. he supposed he would have to COM
NIT the men.
BRUTAL MURDER.
j. II. Sullivan, who was present at the
time Meagher was brought in, sought out
reporter and said
InlS Is Il InO5I DTutal uuhlT, ana COn
care who knows where stand on it. / saw
the POOR boy lying there frozen and
wounded and suffering horribly, and he
had no attention either. ! heard the state
ments made by Charles Wagenknetch and the
other two. Unruh md Bartz, when they first
came in Saturda q, aud IL wont hang very
well with what they said to-day. Bryant
showed them every possible Difference, aud
acted as if he was afraid to say boo to them.
I'm hot, that S what am"
MEAGHER DEAD.